A relação entre saneamento básico e a educação: uma revisão de literatura

Abstract

The Federal Constitution of 1988 guarantees access to public, free and universal education. It means that all school-aged individuals must be guaranteed a place in the public school, regardless of their individual, ethnic or geographical characteristics. Education is a fundamental right, as well as access to basic sanitation, which includes piped water, sewage, waste collection and storm drainage to be offered by the government. Both fundamental rights are denied to many citizens for different reasons. The general objective of the present research was to investigate the social impacts of the provision of basic sanitation. We sought to identify the associations between access and

educational indexes to the provision of basic sanitation. The results indicate that non- sanitized regions have the worst educational indexes and students residing in non- sanitized areas obtain inferior performances when compared with students from sanitized

regions. The data were analyzed at all levels of education and in assessments of basic education. It is concluded that there is a positive association between basic sanitation and education, requiring intersectoral public policies focused on promoting the supply of basic sanitation and on the educational inclusion of students living in non-sanitized areas.